There’s so much going on in the world that can make you think, “What’s it all mean?”

Click. Swipe. Tap. Rush. Work. The daily grind of it makes it hard to find meaning.

But you can cut through and make a meaningful act by supporting animals in sanctuary. The Trust’s Deep Peace Farm sanctuary (A Place if Peace) cares for almost 500 formerly at-risk animals and their children.

Meaningful Monday is our way of spreading a little meaning in the world. Your donation helps ensure that animals in sanctuary stay happy, healthy, and fed.

Can you help spread the love and meaning? Please help us encourage others to make regular donations, as hay for the animals is still incredibly expensive. We’ve already forked out nearly $20,000 in 2019 already. Please share and spread the word.

(Note: the sad cow in the pic above is *not* one of ours. I’m still wrapping my head around how to make these pics for social media so used a free one available. Don’t you just want to send that poor soul to our sanctuary?)

In my years of teaching animal shamanism around the world, this question comes up over and over. Why aren’t more animal communicators vegan, and why are so few spiritual teachers, pagans and shamans vegan?

And further, if the Prophecy of Peace only needed 144,000 “rainbow warriors” to reach a tipping point, then why hasn’t it happened yet? Surely there are 144,000 people around the globe who were spiritual.

In 2016, there is still a large group of the populace with deeply engrained programming of the old paradigm, but the rise of veganism is like a rocket. To me, this means people are becoming more enlightened, because compassion and real empathy for others is a sign of evolution. However, we are ruled by a (collapsing) matrix of collective thought from an old paradigm reinforced daily, along with fear and violence on our televisions and in our news feeds. Until this changes, we remain programmed predators stuck in an old reality. It’s great marketing! It takes a strong mind to rise above the dream matrix. And those strong minds are cracking through the (collapsing) matrix today. Yay!

So perhaps people are on a spiritual path, but they haven’t yet understood that animals are precious, that animals have finished with a paradigm of suffering, and they aren’t here to be our food. They are here to live their lives. And they are urging us to catch up with the new paradigm. Perhaps many people haven’t really understood that we are all connected. And that animals are also important in the shift of consciousness we are currently experiencing.

The Spark of the Divine

To live with the mindset of humility, understanding that animals are precious, that they can teach us something and are to be respected — that is the nature of spiritual compassion and evolution. To understand that the spark of the Divine is in everything, including animals and trees, rocks and rivers, sky and clouds, is a spiritual path which becomes inclusive rather than separatist. Further, when we truly understand that we are all connected, we begin to understand that to harm others, harms ourselves. And that is a key point. Hurting our animal kin, damages our souls and hearts in ways few people yet realise. And slaughter houses hurt our animal kin terribly. And thus they hurt us, and hold violence as a shadow in our matrix.

Holding ourselves as superior to our animal and natural world brothers and sisters creates an abyss of separation which underlies many of problems we face today.

Many spiritual teachers hold that everything is perfect and in Divine Order. And I get that. We are living an illusion. And I also get that a Rainbow Warrior is someone who works on themselves to walk in beauty, so the world becomes a place of no suffering. When we are beauty, so is the world. So it is up to us to change our inner selves, to change the world. That is what Gandhi meant with, “Be the change you want to see in the world.”

It’s not just a change of diet. It’s an entire perspective and societal story we are changing, by changing ourselves from the inside out.

Personally, as an innate empath and telepath, spirituality and a gentle , compassionate vegan lifestyle go hand in hand. From an early age, the thought of hurting animals or nature was unthinkable. They are all alive and sentient. And killing hurts. I couldn’t understand why others were so rough with animals and plants and trees. I would apologise to stones I tripped over them, and not just hug trees, but climb high in their branches for solitude and comfort. I couldn’t understand why others didn’t hear the screams of cows being branded and de-horned, or losing their babies. Or the protests of an old tree in the desert whose life-giving branches were thoughtlessly cut for a cubby house. Or why stockmen didn’t care when their horses’ mouths were bleeding from the rough handling of the bit. The adult world was not a kind one. But it seemed the only one.

Discovering Choices

When I left school, I discovered choices and names for things that previously had no name, like “vegetarian” and “vegan.” My body naturally abhorred the idea of flesh and I was relieved to find Eastern spirituality encouraged the practise of non-meat eating. I never wanted to contribute to the violence of the slaughter house or even backyard killing. I had witnessed first-hand the struggle and fear of a duck having her head chopped off for a Sunday lunch. I got into trouble for not eating lunch that day. How could I, when I had been with that duck energetically when she was killed? When I felt her fear? When traumatised, earth-bound animal spirits would follow me around asking me questions about why they had been killed? Questions I couldn’t answer. Questions that made me feel very alone.

Years later, I realised that many people live in their own community bubbles like I had with my family. And the beauty of this age of social media is that the lines between these communities are blurring and the walls are coming down. We just need to keep showing up and talking outside our own community circle. We need to introduce other people to different ways of doing things until they become normalised in society. That is what is happening with the vegan movement. From something hippy and unacceptable, it’s fast becoming mainstream, with health and climate change benefits as well. By normalising compassion, we’re on our way to a gentler world. When “harm ye none” extends to animals, we will have a paradigm shift.

I felt compelled to teach my own brand of animal shamanism, because in those days, animal communicators who were vegan were so few and far between. And I wondered about that. Did they not go to slaughter houses? Do they not speak with farm animals? Even horses would throw up terrible “behavioural” challenges for their people when they were threatened with being “put in a can.” Animals are highly telepathic and intelligent. They know what that means.

So why couldn’t these other non vegan animal communicators understand and feel the fear of being prey to a human predator? Was it because of their own addictions to flesh-eating, from their own conditioning and programming? I’ve even heard communicators say the animals have told them it’s okay for them to be eaten. Why, then, do some of the world’s greatest thinkers, writers and poets say the opposite? Through me, the animals have begged for a Kindness Revolution. None of them want to be slaughtered. No killing is humane. And it negatively impacts the etheric field.

When we first arrived at our property 20 years ago, we inherited the farm geese. We were told they were vicious. Well, they might have been to people who killed them to eat. But never to us. Not once. And this is the magic of compassion and living in harmony with all beings.

Where’s the Tipping Point?

So why isn’t there a Prophecy of Peace tipping point happening? I would say it is, as more and more people find and commit to a more gentle and inclusive way of life. But not all vegans are on a spiritual path which embraces a higher perspective, and not all who are spiritual have adopted a kind lifestyle embracing animals as their kin. Yet.

Everyone’s journey is personal and unique, and sadly, the horrible plight of farm animals has been overlooked by many on a spiritual path. People are told animals are humanely killed (an oxymoron) or that blessing and thanking will make it all okay, taking out the “negative vibes” from the food they are eating. But it’s really not just okay to bless a soul who died in fear, or think that the animals did it gladly. People forget that animal wasn’t travelling in this world alone, and their death in a slaughter house not only leaves the mark of terror on the etheric wall, but their family leaves the marks of grief.

Changing the Collective Dream

What we need instead of fear and grief for a big paradigm shift is deep peace and divine love — so all beings may be happy.

We need to change the collective dream. And the more people awaken to kindness, the quicker this will happen.

People talk a lot. But it is how they walk in the world that counts. More ethical spiritual teachers will emerge as the collective consciousness shifts to a kinder and gentler way of being. We can’t go into the New Earth wearing the same clothes as we did in the old paradigm. For a golden age of peace to happen, we have to consider deep peace for all species. We have to stop being predators. And we have to be peaceful on the inside as well as in the outer world.

Embracing Ahimsa

So let’s consider ahimsa as a spiritual goal. At it’s core, this sanskrit word means “non-injury.” This goes further than “do no harm” or non-violence, because injury can be a word or a thought or an attitude. So ahimsa holds no prejudice towards other beings. It is a big heart with an open mind devoid of preconceptions. Divine Love for all beings is the essence of ahimsa, and the action of love, dissolves both hate and fear. It’s powerful stuff.

Ahimsa is also a multidimensional concept, It carries with it the idea that if all beings are a divine spark — to hurt another sentient being is to hurt oneself because we are all connected.

Ahimsa is about peace and freedom for everyone, through being love. And that love dissolves all the darkness in the way of light.

To finish off, I would like to add a beautiful mantra, which is for me a chant for Ahimsa:

OM LOKAH SAMASTAH SUKHINO BHAVANTU

It translates as “may all beings be happy and free of suffering,” and reminds us that we are inter-connected with all living beings in the universe.

A wider translation may be:

May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words, and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and to that freedom for all.

This connection to the web of life includes our own peace and happiness. How can you achieve true happines if you cause unhappiness to other living beings? Nor can we be free if we deprive others of their freedom.

Understanding at a deep level that all life is connected, we begin to respect the web of life in all its intricacy, and the wish to do no harm blossoms. With that flower blooming inside us, we shift our perception to one of Beauty, and the world changes with us.

This solstice I’m holding space and helping trapped and shattered souls move forward out of the trash heap that is the Singleton aerial cull of beautiful wild noble horses. They went ahead with it on Wednesday, killed 150 ponies who had lived there since the 1970s, including pregnant mares and foals at foot. Then they buried them, dead or not. This killing, this sickening act, ignited a cold fire of fury inside me. This horrible act is the dark in action. It is simply unacceptable. And we will rise against it.

This was the message from the Mother Brumby who came forward in my ceremony in the wee hours this morning. I was heartbroken as I helped their souls cross but she was radiant. She said their sacrifice was to activate our hearts and souls. To call us to action. She was waiting for her foal to join her. And then he did.

I can’t believe humans will never see these part Welsh ponies again in the landscape. I feel empty with loss. And the fury is burning a bright flame for action.

This solstice is a rare opportunity to finalise things which no longer serve us. The Dark no longer serves us. There has been an increase in dark entities acting out, and people just not being aware. If you want to know if you have an entity, just do a kinesiology test or dowse for it. And if you do, send them to the light with love. And please do not seek the help of practitioners who don’t work in a loving way. Violence is never needed. Ever. It has no place in an era of peace.

So be vigilant and discerning. Now is not the time to forget your protection or get sucked in by someone still preaching and acting the old paradigm. This includes spiritual teachers who talk the talk, but dont walk it.

We are here to protect the Earth and ALL her inhabitants. That is our true purpose. We are here to ensure they thrive, so we can too. That’s because we are all connected. Human beings are wiping out other species faster than a speeding train. It ends now. It ends with this solstice.

Ceremony

This solstice — winter or summer — do a fire ceremony and burn away the old paradigm of fear, hate, stress, worry, lack, violence and barbaric acts. Use the double power of the full moon and the solstice to cleanse this out of ourselves and the collective.

And then light a candle for the light. Imagine lights from the Volunteer Protectors who are here from the stars, from the fae, from other dimensions and realities as well as the earth, standing together all over the world and lighting up the planet. Forget dreaming the new world into being. Now we need to be the new world.

This is the time to remember that we are the change makers. Not someone out there. It is us. This s why we are here. Standing together. Compassion is rising like a shooting star. This is the New era. Now.

Make the solstice Day One of our new reality of kindness, compassion and Divine Love and Deep Peace where ALL beings feel safe to enjoy their beautiful earthly existence.

And please, let’s move on from clinging on to the old paradigm that it’s okay for some animals to die for us. Or to entertain us. Or by entertaining us. It is not. They have their own sovereignty and it is time we took a step back and respected that. Plus, there is no such thing as “farm animals”. It is all part of the lie being fed to us to keep the world in chaos.

The truth lies in the word ahimsa, of not harming at all, even in thought. When we harm others in any way, shape, or form, it reverberates through the multiverse and it hurts us. It hurts you. How do you feel when you hear of an animal in pain? Bad, right? It is not human nature to want to hurt animals. It is definitely not fae nature or star person nature either. All this pain is causing a mire of pain and low frequency. It has to end. It’s time for peace.

Goats are incredibly physical animals. Sure, sheep and cows will clunk each others with their heads, and horses are known to communicate with their feet.

But goats are a whole different ballgame.

Enjoy this pic Billie took recently of two of our guys discussing the meaning of life.

]]>Drought-Proofing the Landhttps://www.deeppeacetrust.com/drought-proofing-the-land/
https://www.deeppeacetrust.com/drought-proofing-the-land/#commentsTue, 21 Aug 2018 01:12:31 +0000https://www.deeppeacetrust.com/?p=4391A Place of Peace, like other sanctuaries, is struggling with the worst drought in living history. My entire focus all 2018 has been on keeping the animals fed, watered, happy and healthy during their second winter without grass. This isn’t easy because grazing animals love and need to graze and there are health issues one needs to be aware of. Colics, ulcers, low immune functioning and gut problems are just a couple of things one has to look out for.

And then there are the emotional issues. Some of the sanctuary cows for example, had immune system challenges because they were so stressed hearing trucks coming for their neighbours. The air was filled with the wailing of local cows losing their children as farmers “destocked.” And then those cows also were shipped off as the drought worsened. Cows are sensitive and compassionate animals. It frightened ours. And we have a large herd of 90.

I promised them it would never come to that and we faithfully delivered hay twice a day while they conserved their energy hanging together under the trees by the hay shed. It helped them to see the full shed of hay, and Emily in particular loved to run up when the trucks arrived, and watch them unloading. But we sadly lost Lady Lydia who was older, had worn teeth, and decided she was done.

We’ve had to up our fundraising drastically because the prices of hay skyrocketed, we got gazumped on precious truckloads of hay I had planned on, and all my drought-proofing went out the window. This is the nature of this drought. It’s not fun and we have to be cashed up to the nines to compete for the amount of hay we need to feed 460 hay munchers. I’ve been quoted $28,000 for semi loads. Pay or its gone.

This drought covers 99 percent of NSW. We’re not primary producers so we don’t get the help and support farmers do – from either the public or the government,

Life becomes a juggle. One eye on the fundraising. One on the hay availability. One on the animal’s condition. And one on beauty. For your sanity. The drought is relentless. It becomes simply about survival.

Like most sanctuaries we are a registered charity. We’ve been on this path for over 20 years. And we did drought proof our land with the personal purchase of an extra 200 acres with 11 dams , still brimming with water. That was stage one of our future proofing.

Our second stage is to implement regenerative farming techniques which I’ve been studying for years, without the farming or killing bit, and natural sequence farming with the use of ponds. These are things most people don’t consider… but if you live on the land, it’s really important. I’m also looking at more energetic techniques out of India and also more shamanic techniques that some people in England are using. I don’t talk about this much because it’s not of much interest to others, unless they live on the land, and I wanted to show people how it worked, after implementation. Proof of concept. I just haven’t been able to put it into practice yet. But hopefully we’ll be able to be even better prepared for the future.

And after a discussion on facebook, I’ve learnt more people are interested in this way of thinking so I will follow up with blog posts.

A Place of Peace is not just an ordinary sanctuary. It has layers to it. I also saw it as a model for normal farmers to adopt once they awoke to compassion. Living with the wildlife instead of seeing them as the enemy, and not killing their cows and sheep, but allowing them to regenerate the land while living their natural lives, the way nature intended.

This is a path to true peace… and harmony for all… both seen and unseen.

He was the colour of rich brown earth in a swirl of dust. A young colt, frightened of humans, wary, spooked. Fear built into his DNA. We had him in the paddock near the house with six other horses, including three who were used to humans. Three who could send calming signals to the others, telling them they could trust us.

We took them delicious hay twice a day and got them used to us coming and going with no agenda. The day was spent in play, the night in quiet sleep. Safety. Peace. No predators.

And it worked. This sweet young wild brumby got used to humans the gentle way. But then one morning last week we came out and he had a small tear on his flank.

This is the fourth wild horse scrape this year, and everyone has healed beautifully through medicinal essential oils and homeopathy. No drama. After 13 years of living with the wild herds, this is the first time we have had this sort of run of minor injuries. I put it down to the dark swirl of negative energies coming from the situation of drought. Horses are sensitive. They pick it up. Drought is stressful to all beings.

I managed to get this young colt with the oils on the first day. He wasn’t suspecting a rain of healing oils on his body. But after that, even though it didn’t hurt him, he knew I had an agenda. It was the agenda to help, but it was an agenda nonetheless. It made him wary.

So I used the magical power of resonant vocal tone and high vibrational words to sooth him. This is bardic healing to restore harmony and balance to the body and soul. This is what Pythagorus used and taught. Pythagorus understood the healing power of a resonant, well-modulated voice, combined with beautiful poetry.

So I sat in the dusty paddock with the dust coloured colt, and put on my best bardic voice, and chanted and intoned poems, chants, songs and words of high vibration, weaving a cloak of deep peace and divine love around him. The tension went out of his body. The trust came back into his eyes. And I knew, without a doubt, that he would heal himself beautifully.

The healing power of poetry is why I wanted to create an anthology of poems using the Celtic Nature Poem as the foundation. Whenever I teach this in my animal shamanism classes, the students report feelings of being wrapped in love. It’s from an ancient mystery tradition which understood that to really see the beauty of nature, is to know the light of Divine Love.

So for me this book will be a healing for those who read it. And like my colt, it will soothe and restore balance and harmony.

Help us create this book which in turn will help feed and care for the sanctuary animals from the proceeds. Details are here.

I said yes to Marley’s subtle, desperate call for help without even seeing him. He was scooped up into our loving care with a large collection of cat people from a Sydney Pound on D Day with absolutely no time to spare. A little, white, smelly staffy with food issues and the worst skin condition the vet had ever seen, he bounced into our lives in March 2013.

An outside dog, we had to toilet train him at his older age, but he quickly adapted to soft couches and cosy dog beds. With a good diet, we changed him from repugnantly smelly to as beautifully earthy smelling as our other dogs. His coat shone, and every now and then we got his skin condition under control. Throughout all this, he was cheerful and sunny, eager for his daily meals and grateful to be part of a family where he was safe.

Marley had a huge “I’m not good enough,” underlaid by fear. Despite his brave aggression around food which had him eating by himself at meal times, Marley went through a long stage of being the underdog in the pack. It was something I really wanted to help him with. Despite his slowness in later years, I made sure he got to come for walks with the other dogs. He really didn’t enjoy car trips or even rides in the car to feed out hay. He preferred to potter around the yard and be close to the pack den—our old cottage.

He had a deep fear of being thrown out and lost to fend for himself again, eating what he could to survive and not welcome anywhere. Like people, some animals find it hard to let go that old story.

He was so cute and sweet and had a valuable role in the family. He was foster mum to the inside lambs and goat kids who adored him, and would curl up with him by the fire. I wanted him to be our PR guy, or one of our Peace Ambassadors. But he didn’t want that. He wanted to remain hidden behind the mists, to heal in sacred sanctuary. So we honoured that.

Because there were so many little things wrong with Marley’s health, he got more than his fair share of fussing over. He got special foods and supplements, the holistic vet for acupuncture, and loads of herbs, homeopathy, baths and oils.

It was in March 2018, just before the full moon and after a heavy dose of solar flares, that he told he couldn’t hang on any more. He said he was leaving and he didn’t want to be alone through the process. I stopped everything I was doing to sit with him and hold sacred space. For as long as it would take. A natural transition can be a time of incredible healing and depth of connection and I knew this is what he wanted. So I made sure I never left his side, joining him on his then current bed on the couch in the living room at night. That finally healed his “I’m not good enough.” He was worthy of our full attention. Of course he was. It was so important he felt safe and loved. At peace.

We made the living room a cathedral of sweet smells and candlelight.

He pottered about the yard and I sat with him in the shade. When he wanted to go in, we carried him in. When the restlessness which is a part of natural transition came, I helped his body potter about. And in between, we did so much healing—not to bring him back or effect a cure, but to clear out the old patterns holding him back.

When he came into consciousness nearing the last leg of his journey, sitting up and staring at me with so much gratitude and love in his bright, dark eyes, I stared back, absorbing the hit to my heart, which made me realise once again why we do what we do. That moment was worth everything. That was his goodbye.

He had told me he was leaving so the dog he couldn’t be could come into my life. I told him we’d had more than seven dogs in the past. But he insisted. We talked more about that. He was ready. And when the room filled with the spirits who come for those crossing over, I realised who he had been waiting for—his mother.

“I am so grateful to you,” she whispered, as Marley’s body took his last breath, his spirit already with her.

The room was empty then. And now there’s someone missing from the pack of black, brown, and gold. There are only six dishes at meal times.

I like to clean after a major passing. I guess its about changing the energy of spaces, clearing them of death, and bringing new life into them.

But no one else needed little coats and jackets to keep them warm during the cold nights and days here. I folded them all up with tears in my eyes. Marley won’t be needing them any more.

. . . . . .

@Billie Dean 2018. Billie Dean is a writer and animal shaman, who founded the Billie Dean Deep Peace Trust working for deep peace for all species. With her family, she runs the Deep Peace Farm Animal Sanctuary, A Place of Peace.

]]>https://www.deeppeacetrust.com/vale-marley/feed/0Quote of the Weekhttps://www.deeppeacetrust.com/quote-of-the-week/
https://www.deeppeacetrust.com/quote-of-the-week/#respondSun, 18 Mar 2018 05:12:45 +0000https://www.deeppeacetrust.com/?p=3839I belive animals should be respected as citizens of this earth.They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families and their own life.
John Feldmann
]]>https://www.deeppeacetrust.com/quote-of-the-week/feed/0About Sovereignity of the Landhttps://www.deeppeacetrust.com/about-sovereignity-of-the-land/
https://www.deeppeacetrust.com/about-sovereignity-of-the-land/#respondSun, 04 Mar 2018 04:26:11 +0000https://www.deeppeacetrust.com/?p=3707

Here at the Deep Peace Farm Animal Sanctuary, we’re about sustainability and forging new ways with the land and the animals, acting in an interconnected way. I’m very influenced by my Celtic heritage and the old ways of working with the Unseen.

In ancient Ireland, the King married the land. He recognised the Unseen and when all went well, the animals and land thrived. In the story of Arthur, it is said that when Arthur was happy and following the Higher Plan, his contract with the magical forces of the unseen, Camelot thrived.

So here at A Place of Peace, I have taken the understanding of Sovereignty to heart and with my relationship to the Fae, am working towards bringing back the balance to this land. The animals at peace are an important factor in this. But so is my ancient contract with the People of Peace.

I noticed that our drought broke when I spoke internationally about the importance of reverence and relationship with the Tree People, and when I taught my own Celtic Faerie brand of Animal Shamanism.. which is about respect and reverence and relationship with all — including farm animals. That was the day the creek flowed again.

In our modern day we are taught to disbelieve in the Unseen and other realms. They have become a thing for children and fantasy stories. But the yearning so many have for “fantasy” is a lingering memory of what the world once was.. and can be again.

Other dimensions, other peoples, other realms.. they are all real. And we re very interconnected.

So I do my practises in honouring the spirits of place and the land herself, the tree people and the Others who live here. I bless the land, and the creek. I pour energy into the land.. and I do my best to act on my geasa. I once had my mentor, a teacher of the People of Peace, come up to me in the paddock, put his hands on my shoulders, look me in the eye and say.. WRITE.

For me this sanctuary is a sacred village, and everything and everyone is alive and has needs, wishes, and desires. As the human guardian with the gift of speaking the silent language, it is up to me (and Andrew and Tam) to be the best Earthkeepers we can. This is why I liken this land to Avalon, a place of higher learning and magical living, a place of druids and priestesses. There are Wise Ones wearing the suits of animals, there are Elders among the Tree People. The world is truly enchanted and nothing like the mundane place, religion has taught us it is.

When humans find their way back to understanding the sovereignty of animals and the land and the Unseen, we will have balance, harmony and the Utopia we all dream of.

c Billie Dean 2018

Billie Dean is an innate telepath and empath, a global authority on animal spirituality and the founder of the Billie Dean Deep Peace Trust. She and her family run the Trust’s animal sanctuary in NSW Australia, where over 460 rescued animals live in peace and safety. Billie also writes forWild Pure Heart, the story studio she founded with her husband, writer Andrew Einspruch. www.deeppeacetrust.com www.billiedean.com www.wildpureheart.com

Here is a link to an article explaining Sovereignty. I couldn’t write it better myself. Enjoy.

]]>https://www.deeppeacetrust.com/about-sovereignity-of-the-land/feed/0It’s All About Kindness! Connect up!https://www.deeppeacetrust.com/its-all-about-kindness-connect-up/
https://www.deeppeacetrust.com/its-all-about-kindness-connect-up/#respondSun, 07 Jan 2018 06:03:42 +0000https://www.deeppeacetrust.com/?p=3571Seriously .. life is about kindness. When Tam and I went to the beach the other afternoon for a much needed break, I had an opportunity to mingle with humans. There was a guy just sitting in his car alone, and being my usual chatty self, I asked him if he was going for a swim. I’m one of those people (you might be too) who have “listener” in their aura.. out poured his story. He’d been in a coma for five months, died several times, come back, never made it through the light.. but saw it. And was paralysed. Today he appreciates his second chance.. and is grateful for EVERYTHING. He thanked us for stopping and talking to him and said it meant a lot.

Reach out.. someone needs you to listen. It doesn’t matter who they are, as Maude said in the film Harold and Maude.. “people, they are my species.” We need each other right now. Connect up!! This is how we are going to make change. By being the change. Kindness to others matters. And sometimes it is just a smile and a ready ear that is the medicine people need.

And here’s a great story about the power of compassion! This is how we all need to be.. weaving the healing threads of compassion, love and understanding.